Friday, September 15, 2006

Wolverine: Origins #6

Wolverine: Origins #6
Wha? Did I miss an issue? I've heard of in media res, but this is ridiculous! Suffice it to say that this issue begins oh-so poorly. How did Wolverine get on a boat? Why is he on a boat? Does the boat have something to do with his son? Or is it merely conveyance from Vietnam? And if that's the case, why not take a plane? Why didn't he catch a lift home with the X-Men? Why stow away? Why isn't Wolvie's scar healing? Where has his healing factor gone? Where's his costume? Why does he take his clothes off? Why does he jump ship? If his healing factor is failing him, wouldn't a swim in icy cold waters kill him? And why does his son need to be taken down? Why does Wolvie need to disable his son's healing factor? And obviously, he got better, so who's to say his kid wouldn't? And does he intend to murder his son? This series needs so much more narration - or just better narration - because we have no clue why Wolverine is doing the things he's doing. If this series is supposed to be about uncovering the origins of Wolverine, then let it do that! Start telling past continuity stories. Stop mucking about in the present day Marvel Universe. This is getting ridiculous, and is validating every suspicion and apprehension I had of this title when it was announced. In one place, I compared it to a steaming bowl of elephant piss. I take that back. It's worse. Who decided that Daniel Way was such a good writer? Was there any fanbase to support this contention? Do the sales back up Marvel's claims?
And that final sequence: is Jubilee dead? If not, then how is Wolvie "too late"? If so, WTF??? Women in refrigerators, indeed! Maverick? Why would he be in a depowered mutant center, merely because he lost his healing factor? He was a gun toting badass, wouldn't he have a job somewhere? A stupid issue. A boring issue. An issue where even Steve Dillon seemed off his game. Omega Red? Please, come on, be serious! If that was him earlier in sillouhette, then where were all those extra appendages? Remember how I said this is worse? It is. It's steaming mounds of elephant CRAP. The printed word can't convey just how disappointed I am with this series. It had the potential for so much, and this is what we get? Ugh.

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